RSS Feed

taxguy · #1 (**permalink**) 05-29-2005, 07:21 PM

I want to place an RSS feed on my accounting web site. I need an aggregator/reader to do so and can't find one that will work. I want clients to be able to come to my site and click on the RSS links for tax related information. My site is hosted on a Linux server and has PHP. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

paulhiles · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2005, 06:04 AM

I've used Magpie RSS, which is a PHP-powered RSS Parser. Works very well, with no elaborate setup.

You can also use PHP to create an xml parser.
One example of this can be seen on the SitePoint site PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0

Hope that helps!

Paul

dirksm · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2005, 01:23 PM

WebProWorld has a link to a parser written both in PHP and ASP at their news feed page (http://www.webpronews.com/feeds.html). The example for the PHP one is at http://www.2rss.com/rsslib-php.zip.

It sounds like you need a tool that will generate RSS Feeds for topics on your website. I don't know of any out there but it shouldn't be hard to create in PHP. If you need more help on this let me know.

laaki · #4 (**permalink**) 06-29-2005, 03:37 AM

Magpie is a good choice if you know how to set it up. Alternatively you can use this RSS to Javascript tool to get javascript code which you can copy paste on your web site to display the feeds.

paulhiles · #5 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005, 04:58 AM

The javascript solution is certainly the easiest method to set up an RSS feed. The only snag is you lose the benefit of fresh content being spidered by SE bots. They would just ignore the javascript and consequently the feed content.

Paul

clicksoft · #6 (**permalink**) 07-07-2005, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taxguy

I want to place an RSS feed on my accounting web site. I need an aggregator/reader to do so and can't find one that will work. I want clients to be able to come to my site and click on the RSS links for tax related information. My site is hosted on a Linux server and has PHP. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I don't know if I'm allowed to advertise my company, but we offer the ability to categorize and manage RSS feeds from one location and display them on your website without a reader installed (using JavaScript)

http://www.clicksoft.com/newsevents.aspx

The service is currently free.